…unreleased music from the ‘Fisherman’s Blues’ sessions, plus revelatory live versions of ‘And a Bang On the Ear’ and Dylan’s ‘New Morning’.
There are rare, magical times in a musician’s life when the songs will not stop coming. Few, though, have experienced streaks quite so abundant as the one enjoyed by Mike Scott and The Waterboys in the second half of the 1980s. “We used to play live in the studio, vocals included, and could lay down as many as eight or 10 songs in a day,” Scott tells MOJO. “The stack of tracks built up until there were over a hundred, though at the time I wasn’t counting.”
The climax of it all came with 1988’s Fisherman’s Blues, a classic album of buccaneering folk rock – but one which, at 13 tracks,…

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